diff --git a/content/posts/2019-04.md b/content/posts/2019-04.md
index ca223f963..d4eb7225a 100644
--- a/content/posts/2019-04.md
+++ b/content/posts/2019-04.md
@@ -1016,4 +1016,46 @@ dspace=# SELECT * FROM item WHERE item_id=74648;
 
 - I even tried to "expunge" the item using an [action in CSV](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Batch+Metadata+Editing#BatchMetadataEditing-Performing'actions'onitems), and it said "EXPUNGED!" but the item is still there...
 
+## 2019-04-30
+
+- Send mail to the dspace-tech mailing list to ask about the item expunge issue
+- Delete and re-create Podman container for dspacedb after pulling a new PostgreSQL container:
+
+```
+$ podman run --name dspacedb -v dspacedb_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:9.6-alpine
+```
+
+- Carlos from LandPortal asked if I could export CGSpace in a machine-readable format so I think I'll try to do a CSV
+  - In order to make it easier for him to understand the CSV I will normalize the text languages (minus the provenance field) on my local development instance before exporting:
+
+```
+dspace=# SELECT DISTINCT text_lang, count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id = 2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 GROUP BY text_lang;
+ text_lang |  count
+-----------+---------
+           |  358647
+ *         |      11
+ E.        |       1
+ en        |    1635
+ en_US     |  602312
+ es        |      12
+ es_ES     |       2
+ ethnob    |       1
+ fr        |       2
+ spa       |       2
+           | 1074345
+(11 rows)
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='en_US' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IN ('ethnob', 'en', '*', 'E.', '');
+UPDATE 360295
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='en_US' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IS NULL;
+UPDATE 1074345
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='es_ES' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IN ('es', 'spa');
+UPDATE 14
+```
+
+- Then I exported the whole repository as CSV, imported it into OpenRefine, removed a few unneeded columns, exported it, zipped it down to 36MB, and emailed a link to Carlos
+- In other news, while I was looking through the CSV in OpenRefine I saw lots of weird values in some fields... we should check, for example:
+  - issue dates
+  - items missing handles
+  - authorship types
+
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diff --git a/docs/2019-04/index.html b/docs/2019-04/index.html
index 8cf90cb75..0bc92f997 100644
--- a/docs/2019-04/index.html
+++ b/docs/2019-04/index.html
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ $ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-delete-1-region.csv -db dspace
 <meta property="og:type" content="article" />
 <meta property="og:url" content="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2019-04/" />
 <meta property="article:published_time" content="2019-04-01T09:00:43&#43;03:00"/>
-<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-04-26T12:16:02&#43;03:00"/>
+<meta property="article:modified_time" content="2019-04-28T19:07:51&#43;03:00"/>
 
 <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/>
 <meta name="twitter:title" content="April, 2019"/>
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ $ ./delete-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2019-02-21-delete-1-region.csv -db dspace
   "@type": "BlogPosting",
   "headline": "April, 2019",
   "url": "https:\/\/alanorth.github.io\/cgspace-notes\/2019-04\/",
-  "wordCount": "6534",
+  "wordCount": "6800",
   "datePublished": "2019-04-01T09:00:43\x2b03:00",
-  "dateModified": "2019-04-26T12:16:02\x2b03:00",
+  "dateModified": "2019-04-28T19:07:51\x2b03:00",
   "author": {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "Alan Orth"
@@ -1418,6 +1418,58 @@ COPY 65752
 <li>I even tried to &ldquo;expunge&rdquo; the item using an <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Batch+Metadata+Editing#BatchMetadataEditing-Performing'actions'onitems">action in CSV</a>, and it said &ldquo;EXPUNGED!&rdquo; but the item is still there&hellip;</li>
 </ul>
 
+<h2 id="2019-04-30">2019-04-30</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Send mail to the dspace-tech mailing list to ask about the item expunge issue</li>
+<li>Delete and re-create Podman container for dspacedb after pulling a new PostgreSQL container:</li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>$ podman run --name dspacedb -v dspacedb_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 -d postgres:9.6-alpine
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Carlos from LandPortal asked if I could export CGSpace in a machine-readable format so I think I&rsquo;ll try to do a CSV
+
+<ul>
+<li>In order to make it easier for him to understand the CSV I will normalize the text languages (minus the provenance field) on my local development instance before exporting:</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>dspace=# SELECT DISTINCT text_lang, count(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE resource_type_id = 2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 GROUP BY text_lang;
+ text_lang |  count
+-----------+---------
+           |  358647
+ *         |      11
+ E.        |       1
+ en        |    1635
+ en_US     |  602312
+ es        |      12
+ es_ES     |       2
+ ethnob    |       1
+ fr        |       2
+ spa       |       2
+           | 1074345
+(11 rows)
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='en_US' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IN ('ethnob', 'en', '*', 'E.', '');
+UPDATE 360295
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='en_US' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IS NULL;
+UPDATE 1074345
+dspace=# UPDATE metadatavalue SET text_lang='es_ES' WHERE resource_type_id=2 AND metadata_field_id != 28 AND text_lang IN ('es', 'spa');
+UPDATE 14
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Then I exported the whole repository as CSV, imported it into OpenRefine, removed a few unneeded columns, exported it, zipped it down to 36MB, and emailed a link to Carlos</li>
+<li>In other news, while I was looking through the CSV in OpenRefine I saw lots of weird values in some fields&hellip; we should check, for example:
+
+<ul>
+<li>issue dates</li>
+<li>items missing handles</li>
+<li>authorship types</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul>
+
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diff --git a/docs/sitemap.xml b/docs/sitemap.xml
index de6634cde..d878a5935 100644
--- a/docs/sitemap.xml
+++ b/docs/sitemap.xml
@@ -4,30 +4,30 @@
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2019-04/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2019-04-26T12:16:02+03:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2019-04-28T19:07:51+03:00</lastmod>
   </url>
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2019-04-26T12:16:02+03:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2019-04-28T19:07:51+03:00</lastmod>
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   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/tags/notes/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2019-04-26T12:16:02+03:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2019-04-28T19:07:51+03:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/posts/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2019-04-26T12:16:02+03:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2019-04-28T19:07:51+03:00</lastmod>
     <priority>0</priority>
   </url>
   
   <url>
     <loc>https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/tags/</loc>
-    <lastmod>2019-04-26T12:16:02+03:00</lastmod>
+    <lastmod>2019-04-28T19:07:51+03:00</lastmod>
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